Sohan Dsouza
@sohandsouza.info
🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
They copied a tweet posted a day earlier by another user. There's a whole industry of people (mostly in India, apparently) whose accounts boost engagement by copy-reposting content of other accounts' popular posts or replies.
My piece on such grifters: sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vib...
My piece on such grifters: sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vib...
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
They copied a tweet posted a day earlier by another user. There's a whole industry of people (mostly in India, apparently) whose accounts boost engagement by copy-reposting content of other accounts' popular posts or replies.
My piece on such grifters: sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vib...
My piece on such grifters: sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vib...
Did you get this screenshot first-hand? I checked it myself, and it shows the USA as its location and app provenance (while noting reported proxy/VPN use).
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Did you get this screenshot first-hand? I checked it myself, and it shows the USA as its location and app provenance (while noting reported proxy/VPN use).
Dude's just trolling us now.
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Dude's just trolling us now.
The @royalsociety.org Milner Award Lecture 2025: Prof. @igurevych.bsky.social's on how AI fact checkers can be misled (similar to how humans are, in many ways) by implicit source citation fallacies, image feature training bias, and misleading chart design, and what we can do about it.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The @royalsociety.org Milner Award Lecture 2025: Prof. @igurevych.bsky.social's on how AI fact checkers can be misled (similar to how humans are, in many ways) by implicit source citation fallacies, image feature training bias, and misleading chart design, and what we can do about it.
Antifa has "branches"?
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Antifa has "branches"?
Especially amusing to see some of the responses.
x.com/AFpost/statu...
x.com/AFpost/statu...
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Especially amusing to see some of the responses.
x.com/AFpost/statu...
x.com/AFpost/statu...
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
History repeating itself, with @drjlange.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
History repeating itself, with @drjlange.bsky.social
Why the lede image of small-boat arrivals when the vast, vast, vast majority of those "who moved to the UK after Brexit" arrived with visas and on planes?
#trashMedia
#trashMedia
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Why the lede image of small-boat arrivals when the vast, vast, vast majority of those "who moved to the UK after Brexit" arrived with visas and on planes?
#trashMedia
#trashMedia
"Matrix politics" and influence operations as a service in Russia, with @shekhovtsov.substack.com at UCL SEES.
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
"Matrix politics" and influence operations as a service in Russia, with @shekhovtsov.substack.com at UCL SEES.
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
They went viral? Gee, I wonder how that could have happened.
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
They went viral? Gee, I wonder how that could have happened.
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
Archive: archive.ph/https://www....
What happened: www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-g...
Ig Nobel Face-to-Face at the Royal Institution
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ig Nobel Face-to-Face at the Royal Institution
Comes across like it's a fancy delicacy made of mostly cholesterol. 🤔
October 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Comes across like it's a fancy delicacy made of mostly cholesterol. 🤔
Is this how rule of law works now? How can you apply a law selectively based on "gender and religious motives" without gender and religious discrimination?
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Is this how rule of law works now? How can you apply a law selectively based on "gender and religious motives" without gender and religious discrimination?
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
www.reuters.com/world/portug...
Along with "New mandated fire-resistant cladding installed in Malory towers".
October 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Along with "New mandated fire-resistant cladding installed in Malory towers".
"Yet the 'Rex' in your name means 'King'."
October 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"Yet the 'Rex' in your name means 'King'."
Good news: this is X's mock-up of a user transparency screen. Hopefully will be shown as a "Continue?" dialog upon first Follow/Like/Share engagement with accounts, will facilitate further drill-down into each point, and will eventually show other signs of inauthenticity (like having been scrubbed).
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Good news: this is X's mock-up of a user transparency screen. Hopefully will be shown as a "Continue?" dialog upon first Follow/Like/Share engagement with accounts, will facilitate further drill-down into each point, and will eventually show other signs of inauthenticity (like having been scrubbed).
Imitating the UK government portal stylesheet in ads for purported car finance refunds.
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Imitating the UK government portal stylesheet in ads for purported car finance refunds.
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
Sneaky.
adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0805...
Fun with Kevin Bacon pathfinding and other network analysis tricks at the workshop, and the latest case analyses and product updates onstage, at the @neo4j.com #GraphSummit today.
#London #tech #database #graphData
#London #tech #database #graphData
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Fun with Kevin Bacon pathfinding and other network analysis tricks at the workshop, and the latest case analyses and product updates onstage, at the @neo4j.com #GraphSummit today.
#London #tech #database #graphData
#London #tech #database #graphData
"Is an AI company implementing guardrails on problematic prompts for its public LLM service censoring you or itself?", and other fascinating questions at yesterday's @indexoncensorship.org panel discussion and magazine issue launch.
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Is an AI company implementing guardrails on problematic prompts for its public LLM service censoring you or itself?", and other fascinating questions at yesterday's @indexoncensorship.org panel discussion and magazine issue launch.
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
#LLMs #AI #censorship #tech #chatbots
Well, since it has no fascist bigot implications, let's just name it after him henceforth.
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute:
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute:
October 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Well, since it has no fascist bigot implications, let's just name it after him henceforth.
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute:
For example, this is a photo of August Landmesser refusing to join others in doing the Musk salute: